School Year 2009

This year we started Kindergarten for Dancer and Pre-K 4 for Auto.

To help me out, we are starting the “WorkBox System” in our schooling day.

We’ve been implementing it for 2 weeks now, and we love

it. Because both my children are so young, I’m making it very simple

for them. We just use the boxes and they’re labeled 1 - 6. We start with

#1 and when each child is finished they move on to #2.

In each box we have a subject, some Dancer and Auto can work by themselves,

if the subject needs my help, there’s a card in the box that

says “Work with Mommy”. Dancer & Auto, love looking into

each box to see if they work by themselves

or if they work with me. They get excited either way, I love it!

Also, in the box there is everything they'll need for that box.

Pencil, glue stick, whatever they will need. This cuts time

out of “picking” a pencil to use, or glue stick

(last year this was an issue, sometimes we were

stuck for about 10 minutes on picking or sharpening their pencil).

Now, no one even knows that they're not

picking their pencil, they are more into what they are doing in the box.

Here are some pictures of our learning room and our “Work

box system”. Enjoy!

This is Auto's set of boxes.

These are Dancer's boxes. Her box has a note "Work with Mommy".

The pile of empty boxes at the end of the school day.

Our school day is about 2 hours long. We start with group time. Then we do calendar, weather, review what letter, number and colors we'll be learning for that day and also pray & do our pledges. On the floor each child has a shape to sit on. If they sit still and nicely on their shape, they earn a “blessing”. Like, dressing the “weather bear” and being my helper. After group time, we start our boxes.

The hardest part (if you can call it hard) of the boxes is putting them together every night before school days which are Monday, Wednesday & Fridays. Right now, I’m putting lesson plans and curriculum together. In October we will order “My Father’s World” Kindergarten & Pre-K that will have this all done for me. I just have to put them in the box, and go.

I’m feeling very good, and I’m 36 weeks along, with only 4 weeks left. So far I’ve enjoyed being pregnant. Most of all, I love feeling the baby inside of me. It’s amazing!

We did reach all our goals for the summer. Thank you Jesus! Auto is potty trained and we finished our school year from last year. Dancer & Auto were amazing with me this summer. They really let me relax. God was so good to me allowing us to have cooler than normal temperatures.

We’ve not heard a word from the children in foster care, so far our family is growing by our baby boy due in October.

We are ready for our 3rd baby. Dancer & Auto were ready a few months ago, they surely can’t wait to meet their little brother.